In life sciences, small details can carry major regulatory risk. LS Law's legal experts help you identify issues early and turn complex regulation into clear decisions.
We're trusted by 100+ global life science companies.
In life sciences, legal teams are under pressure: lean budgets, fast-moving markets, and increasingly complex regulation. Too often, legal is brought in at the last minute creating delays, friction, and avoidable risk. We help legal and compliance functions become what they should be: proactive business enablers, not bottlenecks.
When in-house legal teams are stretched, risk doesn’t wait.
Today's life science legal leaders are expected to be strategic business partners. When in-house legal teams have to wear multiple hats, it means there's less time to do the actual work that keeps organisations compliant.
The challenge facing life science legal teams
Legal leaders are now expected to shape business strategy as well as manage risk. But lean teams and high attrition mean capacity is tight. When someone leaves, the gap is immediate. Finding the right expertise quickly is rarely simple.
That's where LS Law comes in...
Our consultants are experienced life science legal professionals who can step into a role quickly and effectively. The result: immediate expertise, less pressure on your internal team, and continuity for the legal work that matters most.
The world has changed: AI, data, and digital health are moving faster than regulators can write rules. The result is more ambiguity, and higher risk of unintended missteps. We help you navigate those grey areas with practical, implementable legal guidance. Giving leadership teams the clarity to make confident decisions.
LS Law helps life science legal teams get stuff done.
We understand exactly what you're going through. All our consultants have experience of working in-house at major Pharma and Biotech companies. We understand the constraints and the challenges that in-house teams come up against because we've faced them ourselves.
That's why we don't just provide legal expertise; we're problem solvers, mentors, and so much more...
Common challenges we help solve
Resource Constraints
Do you have a gap in your team?
Workload Increases
Do you have a sudden surge in workload?
Headcount Freeze
Do you have a headcount freeze, but need additional resource?
Need Flexibility
Do you need support which can be flexed in line with business needs?
Require Specific Expertise
Are you struggling to find legal/compliance industry experts?
Bespoke Solution Design
Are you struggling to find a partner who can help you find a solution?
Our approach
LS Law combines deep industry experience with flexible access to specialist expertise, helping legal teams respond quickly when capacity or knowledge gaps arise.
Industry Experience
Our consultants are experienced legal and compliance professionals who have all worked within pharmaceutical and biotech organisations. We understand the regulatory environment and the realities of operating inside the business.
Specialist Expertise
LS Law provides a team of legal and compliance specialists across multiple levels of experience, ensuring the right expertise is available for the needs of your organisation. This allows us to match the right consultant to your specific regulatory, commercial or compliance challenge.
Flexible Support
We tailor our support to fit your needs, whether interim, part-time, full-time or project-based, giving you access to the right capability when you need it. This flexible model ensures legal expertise can be aligned with the changing demands of your organisation.
Immediate Capability
Our consultants can step in quickly to close temporary gaps in your team, providing immediate support while allowing resources to scale up or down as business demands change. This ensures continuity and momentum when your legal team is under pressure.
Services designed to support
life science legal teams
Designed by experienced in-house General Counsel, our compliance, legal support and data privacy services help pharmaceutical and biotech companies bring products to market, expand internationally and navigate complex regulatory requirements.
Avata Biosciences (previously Sapient Therapeutics) required clarity over intellectual property across complex, cross-border collaborations involving commercial partners and academic institutions. We worked closely with their team to draft and negotiate key agreements, ensuring ownership and use of IP was clearly defined and aligned with their development strategy. The result: clear, consistent IP rights across agreements, enabling continued research, collaboration and future commercialisation with confidence.
Supporting Avata Biosciences in structuring clear, defensible intellectual property arrangements.
Avata Biosciences (previously Sapient Therapeutics) required clarity over intellectual property across complex, cross-border collaborations involving commercial partners and academic institutions. We worked closely with their team to draft and negotiate key agreements, ensuring ownership and use of IP was clearly defined and aligned with their development strategy. The result: clear, consistent IP rights across agreements, enabling continued research, collaboration and future commercialisation with confidence.
Supporting Avata Biosciences in structuring clear, defensible intellectual property arrangements.
Urgo Medical’s UK business needed a more integrated, commercially aligned approach to legal support without a dedicated in-house function. Operating in a complex regulatory environment, spanning distribution, digital health and NHS partnerships, they required legal input that could keep pace with the business.
We established an outsourced legal function embedded into their team, providing responsive, practical support across day-to-day and strategic matters. This streamlined decision-making, reduced reliance on traditional firms and created a more consistent, cost-effective model. The result: a scalable legal function supporting growth, enabling faster decisions while maintaining strong regulatory oversight.
How we helped Urgo Medical create a flexible, commercially aligned legal function to support UK growth.
Urgo Medical’s UK business needed a more integrated, commercially aligned approach to legal support without a dedicated in-house function. Operating in a complex regulatory environment, spanning distribution, digital health and NHS partnerships, they required legal input that could keep pace with the business.
We established an outsourced legal function embedded into their team, providing responsive, practical support across day-to-day and strategic matters. This streamlined decision-making, reduced reliance on traditional firms and created a more consistent, cost-effective model. The result: a scalable legal function supporting growth, enabling faster decisions while maintaining strong regulatory oversight.
How we helped Urgo Medical create a flexible, commercially aligned legal function to support UK growth.
3BP required a structured data privacy framework to support its advanced genomics platform and enable collaboration across the life sciences sector. We worked closely with the team to translate regulatory requirements into practical processes embedded into their operations.
The result: a clear, defensible approach to data protection, enabling compliant data use, stronger governance and confident collaboration with partners.
Supporting 3 Billion Pairs Genetic in establishing a practical, GDPR-aligned approach to data protection.
3BP required a structured data privacy framework to support its advanced genomics platform and enable collaboration across the life sciences sector. We worked closely with the team to translate regulatory requirements into practical processes embedded into their operations.
The result: a clear, defensible approach to data protection, enabling compliant data use, stronger governance and confident collaboration with partners.
Supporting 3 Billion Pairs Genetic in establishing a practical, GDPR-aligned approach to data protection.
Here are some of the things we often get asked when we are speaking to life science companies. If you have a question that isn't listed here, please get in touch using the form below.
LS Law provides specialist legal and compliance support to organisations operating in the pharmaceutical, biotech and wider life sciences sector. Our consultants help companies navigate complex regulatory environments, manage legal risk, and maintain effective legal and compliance functions.
We support a wide range of life sciences organisations, from large pharmaceutical multinationals to growing biotech companies that may not yet have an in-house legal function. Our clients operate globally across sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, R&D and consumer health.
Unlike traditional law firms, LS Law consultants have predominantly worked in-house within life sciences organisations. This means we understand the commercial realities of the business and provide practical, business-focused solutions rather than purely theoretical legal advice.
Our consultants support organisations across a wide range of areas including regulatory compliance, clinical trials, healthcare professional interactions, intellectual property collaborations, contract management, supply chain legal issues, and data privacy.
Yes. Many of our clients already have an in-house legal or compliance team. We provide interim support, project assistance, or specialist expertise to help teams manage workload spikes, cover team attrition, or deliver strategic initiatives.
Yes. For organisations that do not have their own legal or compliance department, LS Law can operate as an outsourced legal and compliance function, providing experienced professionals on a flexible basis.
Our services are designed to be flexible and scalable. We offer ad-hoc support, project-based work, interim secondees, and subscription models so organisations can access legal expertise when they need it.
LS Law works with a global network of legal and compliance experts across regions including the UK, EU, US, Middle East, Australia and Asia-Pacific, allowing us to support organisations operating internationally.
LS Law was founded in 2015 by Wendy Lloyd-Goodwin, a life sciences legal expert with over 20 years of experience working in pharmaceutical companies. The firm was created to address the challenge of quickly finding lawyers with niche industry expertise.
You can book a call with one of our experts to discuss your current challenges. We will assess your needs and recommend the most appropriate level and type of legal or compliance support.
LS Law's Vision
Learn more about the vision and the values that underpin the way LS Law partners with life science professionals. Our goal is to provide a world-class service to enable you to get to market quicker, easier, and safer.
The vision for Life Science Law grew out of a desire to solve the seemingly impossible challenge I had faced whilst working within the industry – obtaining immediate, ad-hoc additional support from lawyers and compliance professionals with industry expertise.
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